I really liked this book. Short chapters and great writing made me devour this book very quickly! This books format is written as if it were Tetsu’s diary. A great sports novel for baseball fans and a great history novel for history folks! I have nothing bad to say about this book. The cover is good also. The background for this book which is the Japanese internment camp in the 1940’s is intriguing. The author does a really good job with laying out the hardships these Japanese Americans faced and what they loss. The fact that there really was a Japanese internment baseball team that beat the Arizona state champs in 1945 is awesome. Diamond in the Desert is a great book that opens up the harsh reality of internment camps for Japanese Americans following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The books tells about a young 12 year old boy who finds relief and sanity from the terrible conditions of the internment camp through the great past time of baseball. The book shows how one tragedy of the bombing to another tragedy of taking freedom away from American citizens and putting them in prison camps for two years.
A really good historical fiction novel about a Japanese interment camp during WW2.
—roshni
i thought it was an amazing book of struggle and overcoming it
—marl
A new take on story I've read many versions of before
—Abdul
Boring
—Neicy
